Sometimes it is necessary to convert a MySQL table in an existing database. For example, I ran into this with the need to create relationships between tables through the foreign key. As it turned out, the default MySQL MyISAM engine does not support this. To create a link table must be of type InnoDB. But this is not a big problem, because you can convert the table. To convert a single table SQL query is enough (which can be done, for example, through phpmyadmin):